Academy Award and Tony Award nominated actress Anna Kendrick and Tony Award andGrammy Award nominated Jeremy Jordan ("Smash,"Joyful Noise) will star in the film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed musical The Last 5 Years to be written and directed by Academy Award nominee Richard LaGravenese. Kendrick just Instagramed another pic of the cast on set and you can check it out below!
Lauren Versel,
Kurt Deutsch,
Richard LaGravenese and
Janet Brenner will produce. Steve Norman will co-produce. Steven Meizler, who has worked extensively with
Steven Spielberg,
David Fincher and
Steven Soderbergh , is the director of photography. The film begins shooting this week in New York City. CAA will handle domestic sales, with Brian O'Shea and Nat McCormick handling international sales for The Exchange.
The Last 5 Years is a musical love story for a new generation. Told through emotionally powerful and comic songs from their individual perspectives, The Last 5 Years is a deconstruction of the love affair and marriage of Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, The story chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up...or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it.
